An employee poses with a work of art by Nigerian artist Benedict Enwonwu that is part of the 2015 edition of the Africa Now - Modern Africa sale, at Bonhams auction house in London on May 18, 2015. PHOTO | AFP |

An employee poses with a work of art by Nigerian artist Benedict Enwonwu that is part of the 2015 edition of the Africa Now - Modern Africa sale, at Bonhams auction house in London on May 18, 2015. PHOTO | AFP |

Riot police march past the President during Tanzania’s Independence Day parade at the Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam on December 9, 2014. PHOTO | ANTHONY SIAME |

Kenya Red Cross Secretary General Abbas Gullet next to a plaque bearing the names of those who lost their lives in Westgate Terror Attack during the first anniversary at Karura Forest on September 21,2014. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL |

In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 29, 2014 and provided by the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014, African Union (AU) soldiers from Uganda gather around their tanks as they prepare to launch an offensive against Al-Shabaab strongholds in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia. PHOTO | AFP |

Filming of a science fiction TV series Scence8 in Nairobi as directed by the German director Tom Tykwer on September 6, 2014. It is to be released in Hollywood in 2015. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU |

A vehicle wades through a slippery road in Uganda's Napak District recently. Heavy rains have rendered many parts of Karamoja inaccessible. PHOTO | DAILY MONITOR |

A poster announcing Yoweri Museveni’s sole presidential candidature for the National Resistance Movement at the entrance of Nakivubo Blue Primary School where the Ugandan leader presided over passing out of party carders yesterday. PHOTO | STEPHEN WANDERA |

Mid-fight another contestant from Senegal is covered in sand in a match against an opponent from Niger. PHOTO | BBC |

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, Guinea soldiers stand around a rope across the road that separates Guinea and Sierra Leone, and works as a makeshift border control checkpoint at Gbalamuya-Pamelap, Guinea. PHOTO | AFP |

Sub-Saharan immigrants on the top of the Spanish border fence as they try to reach Melilla, Spanish enclave in northern Africa, August 12, 2014. PHOTO | AFP |

Kenya's Purity Cherotich Kirui (R) and her compatriot Milcah Chemos Cheywa during the women's 3000 metres steeplechase final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, July 30, 2014. Race ended with a clean sweep for Kenya. PHOTO | AFP | |

Moroccan Hoba Hoba Spirit performs in the US in one of their 2014 stage tours. PHOTO | KIM METTHAI LELAND |

In DRC's eastern city of Goma, water-sellers with water from Lake Kivu, They make about $10 (£6) a day. PHOTO | BBC |

Nigerian Muslims pray on July 28, 2014 at the National Stadium parking lot in Lagos, during celebrations of Eid Al-Fitr which marks the end of the fasting holy month of Ramadan. PHOTO | AFP |

Pope Francis (L) with Sudanese Christian Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag and her family at the Vatican. Ms Ishag who was sentenced to death for renouncing Islam, then acquitted, arrived in Italy en route to the US. PHOTO | AFP. |

Uganda's UPDF soldiers and police forces patrol streets in Kampala on July 3, 2014 following a US warning of a "specific threat" by an unknown group to attack Entebbe international airport. PHOTO | DAILY MONITOR |

Wreckage of a cargo plane which crashed at a commercial building in a Nairobi suburb shortly after takeoff early on July, 2, 2014 from the Kenyan capital's main airport, the busiest in east African. PHOTO | AFP |

An observer from the Arab league at a polling station in Nouakchott, on June 21, 2014, during the presidential elections. President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has been declared winner. PHOTO | AFP |

South African President, Jacob Zuma(C), and soldiers with the guard of honour from the South African National defence Force, take the National salute at the Opening of the South African Parliament on June 17, 2014, in Cape Town. PHOTO | AFP |

A member of Gnaoua group Maalem Mohamed kouyou performs in Morocco's Essaouira at the Gnaoua World Music Festival on June 13, 2014. PHOTO | AFP |

Kenyan opposition leader and former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga (in a checked shirt), arrives at Tononoka ground in Mombasa on June 15 2014. His coalition, Cord, is pushing the government into national dialogue. PHOTO | LABAN WALLOGA |

Turkana dancers prepare for a dance during the first day of the seventh edition of Lake Turkana Cultural Festival, Loiyangalani Kenya, on June 13, 2014. PHOTO | JOSEPH KANYI |

Supporters of the ANC party celebrate their victory on May 10, 2014 in Johannesburg. South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Pallo Jordan was this week forced to resign as a Member of Parliament and as ANC's executive committee after it was revealed that he had forged a doctoral degree from an American university. MUJAHID SAFODIE | AFP

South Africans queue to vote for the general elections early on May 7, 2014 in Bekkersdal township. Polls opened in South Africa's fifth all-race elections today, with up to 25 million citizens - including a "born free" generation electing a government for the first time --expected to cast their ballots. MARCO LONGARI | AFP

Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh and US President Barack Obama wait to make statements to the press before a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on May 5, 2014 in Washington, DC. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI | AFP

Supporters of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) sing and dance while holding a framed poster of late anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela during the final ANC election campaign rally at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg on May 4, 2014. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA | AFP

South African former president Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandela, South African president Jacob Zuma, Chaiman of the National Council of Provinces Mniswa Malngeni and South African Vice President Kgalema Motlanthe pose after unveiling a bust of Nelson Mandela on April 28, 2014, in Cape Town. RODGER BOSCH | AFP

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members brandish posters of party president Morgan Tsvangirai as they gather outside their party headquarters in Harare on April 27, 2014. Moments before, the party spokesperson Douglas Monzora dismissed the suspension of Tsvangirai by a splinter faction of the party as infighting in Zimbabwe's main opposition party intensified Saturday. JEKESAI NJIKIZANA | AFP

Egyptian former national team head coach Hasan Shehata holds the lot of Ghana during the draw for the preliminary and group phases of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) headquarters in Cairo on April 27, 2014. Morocco will host the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations tournament. KHALED DESOUKI | AFP

A girl dances during a procession at the yearly Lagos carnival to mark the Easter holiday on April 21, 2014. The carnival was held with processions combining some elements of a circus, grand display of fabulous costumes by the participants and public street parties. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI | AFP

Sculptural works of Ghanaian-born Professor El Anatsui made with bottle caps at his Nsukka studio. Anatsui's first big step toward international acclaim happened in 1990 when he and four others became the first artists from sub-Saharan Africa invited to exhibit at the Venice Biennale, one of the world's most prestigious showcases. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI | AFP

A member of Sudan's security forces stands near the tracks as the new Nile Train passes through Khartoum on March 17, 2014. On January 20 the train began daily passenger service -- Sudan's first in years -- as part of efforts to revive the railway system. ASHRAF SHAZLY | AFP

Pope Tawadros II, leader of Egypt's Coptic Church, leads an Easter service late on April 19, 2014 at the Cathedral of Abbasiya in Cairo. Copts account for 6 to 10 per cent of Egypt's 85 million people. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED | AFP

The owners of a "maquis," a small African restaurant, in Kobakro, outside Abidjan, which used to serve bush meat, hold up the different types of meat and fish they now offer to their clients. The Ministry of Health has asked Ivorians, "particularly fond of porcupine and agouti," a small rodent, to avoid consuming or handling bushmeat, as an unprecedented Ebola epidemic hit West Africa. ISSOUF SANOGO | AFP

Lovemore Riet takes care of his horse before an equestrian voltage lesson at the Soweto Equestrian Centre on April 15, 2014 in Soweto. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA | AFP

Central African transitional President Catherine Samba-Panza receives a gift from the former French Minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement (C) at the President's Palace during a visit of French Senators in Bangui on April 14, 2014. MIGUEL MEDINA | AFP

Pedestrians wait to cross a flooded road in the Mikocheni area of Dar es Salaam on April 12, 2014. The Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) has issued a weather warning, predicting several more days of heavy rain for the coastal and southern parts of the country. DANIEL HAYDUK | AFP

Some of the people who were arrested in Eastleigh suburb, Kenya, during a police raid following insecurity incidents in some parts of the country. They were being held at Kasarani police station for verification of documents on April 10, 2014. PHOEBE OKALL | NATION MEDIA GROUP

People stand on a car with their belongings on the road from Mbaiki to Bangui on April 8, 2014. The crisis in the strife-torn Central African Republic has left 1.6 million people in urgent need of food, the United Nations said Monday. MIGUEL MEDINA | AFP

Ali Mohamed arranges shoes at his shop along First Avenue in Eastleigh, Nairobi on April 9, 2014. A whole day passes without a sale as most customers are either under arrest or fear going to shop. DENISH OCHIENG | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Residents gather near a hole inside a ditch where an improvised explosive device (IED) had been set but was safely detonated by bomb experts on April 2, 2014 in Nairobi's Eastleigh estate, a day after a prominent hardline Muslim cleric was shot dead in Mombasa. TONY KARUMBA | AFP

A man serves passengers disembarking from a Jambojet plane at Moi International Airport with coconut milk. Kenya's national carrier Airways launched its domestic flights on April 1, 2014. PHOEBE OKALL | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Forensic teams search for evidence at the scene of a bomb blast in Eastleigh, Nairobi, on April 1, 2014. Three almost simultaneous blasts in the Kenyan capital on Monday left at least six people dead and scores injured, police said. | AFP

Two boys play with a broken bicycle near the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Malakal on March 20, 2014. Malakal is a key city in an oil-prducing region in the country's northeast, 497km north of Juba. IVAN LIEMAN | AFP

An Egyptian riot policeman fires tear gas at Muslim Brotherhood students and supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsy following a demonstration outside Cairo University on March 26, 2014. KHALED DESOUKI | AFP

Young Talibs (students at a Koranic school) play in Dakar on March 20, 2014. Senegal is failing to protect thousands of boys in Islamic boarding schools from forced begging and torture at the hands of their teachers, a global human rights organisation said in a recent report. SEYLLOU | AFP

Algerian security forces patrol a street during sectarian clashes on March 16, 2014 in the town of Ghardaia. The city has been rocked by clashes between the Chaamba community of Arab origin and the majority Mozabites who are indigenous Berbers. FAROUK BATICHE | AFP

Dr Richard Leakey holds an imitation of ivory while addressing the press on March 19, 2014. The environmentalist asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to invoke emergency response on elephant and rhino poaching in Kenya, noting alarming illegal practice that has seen a rise in animals' death. BILLY MUTAI | NATION MEDIA GROUP

An armoured vehicle is lifted into an UN transport ship at the Eemshaven seaport in The Netherlands on March 17, 2014. The 140 vehicles and 224 containers of the Dutch Armed forces will be shipped to West Africa after which they will be destined for Mali. CATRINUS VAN DER VEEN | AFP / ANP

A man who fled Central African Republic transports his goods on a cart, riding through the frontier post of Garoua-Boulai, eastern Cameroon, strategically located on the axis linking Bangui to Cameroon on March 14, 2014. REINNIER KAZE | AFP

African National Congress (ANC) members hold up signs as court is adjourned at Pretoria's North Gauteng High Court on day six of South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius's murder trial on March 10, 2014. An overcome Oscar Pistorius repeatedly threw up in court on March 10 as he listened to harrowing testimony about the autopsy of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. ALEXANDER JOE | AFP

(L-R) Silver medallist US Bernard Lagat, Gold winner Kenya's Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku and bronze medallist Ethiopia's Dejen Gebremeskel pose on the podium after the Men 3000 metre final event at the IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Sopot, on March 9, 2014. JANEK SKARZYNSKI | AFP

A man holds up daily newspapers in Bangui on February 27, 2014, including the independent daily "Le Democrate" featuring a photo of French President Francois Hollande. SIA KAMBOU | AFP

Hillary Clinton presents the Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards for Advancing Women in Peace and Security to Dr Denis Mukwege, founder of Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with Georgetown University President John DeGioia on February 25, 2014 in Washington, DC. | Getty Images/AFP

An auctioneer points to the opening price of US $ 4.85 per kilogramme of the "golden leaf" at the annual Zimbabwe tobacco market that opened in Harare. Zimbabwe hopes to boost agricultural output by almost 10 per cent this year with an increase in tobacco production, a minister said. JEKESAI NJIKIZANA | AFP

A South-Sudanese girl waits for treatment at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Juba, on February 22, 2014. The World Health Organisation launched a vast vaccination campaign against cholera in the South Sudanese refugee camps on February 22, 2014. CHARLES LOMODONG | AFP

Women handle leopard-skin capes in Durban, South Africa. Leopard skins symbolise pride and royalty to the Nazareth Baptist Church, whose members are encouraged to don the costly dress for customary rituals. However, church leaders have agreed with conservationists to offer a cheaper, kitty-friendly synthetic alternative in order to reduce poaching. | AFP

South Sudanese internally displaced people get about their daily life in the UNMISS (United Nations Mission in South Sudan) base, where over 27,000 people sought refuge on February 19, 2014, in Juba. ANDREI PUNGOVSCHI | AFP

Two members of "La Sape" movement, acronym for "Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes" (The Society for the Advancement of Elegant People), pose as they take part in a tribute to the movement's founder Stervos Niarcos Ngashie in the Gombe cemetery in Kinshasa on February 10, 2014. | AFP

Muslims march in a procession in Kenya's Eldoret town to mark Maulid, the celebration of the birth of Prophet Mohammed on February 09, 2014. JARED NYATAYA | NATION MEDIA GROUP

African asylum seekers use blankets to protect themselves from the cold during a continuing protest in Tel Aviv's Levinski Park on February 5, 2014. JACK GUEZ | AFP

A photo taken on February 2, 2014, shows Amoin Yvonne Toure (R) eating cake during a birthday celebration with relatives in Bouake, Cote d' Ivoire. Toure officially marked her 100th birthday but several relatives say she is 120 years old, a discrepancy mostly due to the poor state of civil and births registration offices in the country. | AFP

Two men try to fix traditional hats on a short wooden base after washing to maintain the shape of the traditional hat widely worn by males in northern Nigeria on January 13, 2014. Fashion hats are traditional markers in Nigeria of both ethnic, social and royalty. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI | AFP

Libyan football fans celebrate at Martyrs' Square in the Libyan capital Tripoli on January 29, 2014 after the national team defeated Zimbabwe in its African Nations Championship semi-final match. | AFP

Looters gather items from the homes of Muslim families in Bangui on January 28, 2014 after the departure of former Seleka militants to the Kassai camp. ISSOUF SANOGO | AFP

A supporter of Egypt's army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi holds a military boot on her head in a sign of support for military rule during a demonstration outside the Police Academy in Cairo on January 28, 2014. MAHMUD KHALED | AFP

Senegalese music icon Youssou N'Dour works in the studio with Central African singer Idylle Mamba on January 26, 2014 in Dakar, as they record a song dedicated to peace in Central African Republic. SEYLLOU | AFP

Abdi Rahman Ismail teaches class 3 students at Afmadow Primary School in Somalia on January 24, 2014. EVANS HABIL | NATION MEDIA GROUP

African asylum seekers hold a poster bearing portraits of late South African leader Nelson Mandela as they stage a protest in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on January 22, 2014. JACK GUEZ | AFP

A man sits on rubble the rubble of the destroyed Westgate mall in Nairobi on January 21, 2014. TONY KARUMBA | AFP

Ethiopian orthodox Christians bathe in the Fasilides baths during the Timkat festival in Gondar on January 19, 2014. Timkat is the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian festival which celebrates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan river. CARL DE SOUZA | AFP

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure speaks after being declared winner of CAF African Footballer of the Year Award in Lagos, Nigeria, on January 9, 2014. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI | AFP

Performers take part in the annual Cape Town Minstrels Carnival on January 4, 2014 in Cape Town. This event, which is deeply rooted in Cape Malay culture, gathers more than 13000 performers in about 70 bands of musicians, dancers and troupe members in brightly coloured outfits who parade through the city. RODGER BOSCH | AFP

Members of delegation opposed to South Sudan's government including Grang Demebiar (C), the son of late Sudanese politician John Garang, attend talks on January 4, 2014 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to try and broker a ceasefire between South Sudan's President Salva Kiir led government forces and rebels allied to former Vice-President, Riek Machar. | AFP

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (R) and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn (2nd-R) meet with South Sudanese political detainees held in government custody during a visit to Juba on December 26, 2013. They flew into Juba for talks with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir. HO/PSCU | AFP

A Nigerian dancer performs during a rehearsal at a dance school in Lagos, Nigeria. Interest in the performance arts has increased in the country, which is investing heavily in developing the sector, recognising that a more professional approach could make it more internationally successful. | AFP

South African mining magnate Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe speaks with British entrepreneur Richard Branson (L) during the funeral ceremony of South African former president Nelson Mandela in Qunu on December 15, 2013. GCIS HO / KOPANO TLAPE | AFP

A South African anti-poaching task team patrol in Kruger National Park on November 26, 2013. The country's conservation authorities said they aim to reduce rhino poaching by 20 per cent a year. | AFP

This picture taken on November 22, 2013 in Johannesburg shows the covers of two local South African newspapers which defied government threats and published pictures of President Jacob Zuma's private home, which was controversially revamped using $20 million of taxpayers' money. ALEXANDER JOE | AFP

Syrian women talk to a driver as they beg on the parking of a supermarket on October 29, 2013 in the Moroccan city of Rabat. Since the summer, more and more Syrians have crossed from Algeria into Morocco without visas. FADEL SENNA | AFP

Italy's striker Mario Balotelli (L) vies with Nigeria's defender Azubuike Egwuekwe (R) during the International friendly football match between Italy and Nigeria at Craven Cottage in London on November 18, 2013. GLYN KIRK | AFP

Teta Isibo, a jewellery designer showcases her bold creations during Kigali Fashion Week that began on November 4, 2013. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP

South Africans dancers of Via Katlehong company perform on stage on November 4, 2013 in the Maison de la Danse in Lyon, during the general rehearsal of their last dance musical "Via Sophiatown". The show is set in a Johannesburg suburb, the South African township Sophiatown, and will go on a French tour with twenty dates to come. | AFP

A man rests on a bag of rice donated by Qatar Charity for IDPs displaced by the recent flooding and clan conflict in Jowhar on November 12, 2013. Heavy rains in Somalia, coupled with recent disputes between clans, has resulted in over 4,000 IDPs seeking shelter at an AMISOM military base near the town of Jowhar. | AFP / AU UN IST

A Democratic Republic of Congo FARDC soldier holds a bone discovered in a mass grave on November 7, 2013 in Kibumba, southwest of Goma. According to a ministry statement the mass grave is one of three discovered the week before by the army during "mopping-up operations" containing "the bones of adults and children". | AFP

The head of Radio Mogadishu's archives, Abshir Hashi Ali, is at work in the radio station's library in Mogadishu, Somalia, on November 7, 2013. The minister of Information visited Radio Mogadishu to see the on-going digitalisation of the station's archive. | AFP / AU-UN IST / TOBIN JONES

Kenyan painter Paul Oditi carries his work to display it at the first commercial auction of east African art on November 4, 2013 in Nairobi, on the eve of the the auction. | AFP

Winnie MadikizelaMandela (R) and British actor Idris Elba, who plays the role of Nelson Mandela in the movie "Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom", attend the movie's premiere in Johannesburg on November 3, 2013. ALEXANDER JOE | AFP

A little girl views the remains of Lucy at the National Museum of Ethiopia. Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, several hundred pieces of bone representing about 40% of the skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis. EMMA NZIOKA | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Egyptian students of al-Azhar University block the access to an administration building during an anti-army protest on October 30, 2013 at the university in Cairo. KHALED KAMEL | AFP

Sudanese fighter al-Modreya (C) celebrates after winning against Japanese diplomat Yasuhiro Murotatsu, known as "Muro" (L), in a traditional Sudanese Nuba wrestling match on October 25, 2013 at a stadium in Khartoum. SHRAF-SHAZLY | AFP

Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsy and the Muslim brotherhood clash with local residents as they take part in a march against the military on October 25, 2013 in Cairo's al-Ahram district. KHALED KAMEL | AFP

A girl drinks water on October 23, 2013 in the La Reunionkely area of Antananarivo ahead of the October 25 presidential elections. After the presidential polls, a parliamentary vote will follow on December 20, along with a second presidential round if the October election does not deliver an outright winner. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN | AFP

Hundreds of Egyptians gather in front of the Virgin Mary Coptic Christian church in Cairo after gunmen on a motorbike shot dead three people late on October 20, 2013. It the first such assault targeting Christians in Cairo since the military coup that ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsy. | AFP

A man fills empty containers with water, on October 10, 2013 as an interruption in water services has affected large areas of Senegalese capital, Dakar, for nearly three weeks. SEYLLOU | AFP

Algerian football supporters gather at Ouagadougou Airport in Burkina Faso on October 10, 2013, upon arrival of the Algerian national football team ahead of the 2014 World Cup qualifying football match between Burkina Faso and Algeria on October 12. | AFP